Curious is dead, long live...

The Gay Night At The Uni · Leeds' Only LGBT Student Night

Curious is dead, long live...

thaidave · Not Thai Dave

I predict uproar.

Date: Wed Apr 19 13:33 2006

I heard they were getting Dannii Minogue...

Scotty · The saviour of mankind

poor mans kylie.....even though shes better than ure average gina g

Date: Wed Apr 19 14:59 2006

She sings about the things that kylie is too polite to...

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

This night isn't being run by the lgbt or replacing Curious btw, it's just a one-off cos we already had Mine booked!

ChallengeTheMighty · Bingo Whore

richardyoung71 wrote:

This night isn't being run by the lgbt or replacing Curious btw, it's just a one-off cos we already had Mine booked!

if this isn't a society event who is gonna fund the publicity for it?

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

The bank manager

Adam · *Censored*

the LGBT couldn't afford Dannii anyway

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

Do i have to pay her?! Make her come for free!

AliceH · Butter Me Up!

ChallengeTheMighty wrote:

if this isn't a society event who is gonna fund the publicity for it?

The parts of Richard Young from the waist, downwards, on a cold April evening at Mission I would assume.

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

I could make sooo much money!

AliceH · Butter Me Up!

Yeah, but you're so skinny that you could only tuck about three ten pound notes down your pants before you ran out of space.

thaidave · Not Thai Dave

lol touché! long live overdrafts.

AliceH · Butter Me Up!

thaidave wrote:

lol touché! long live overdrafts.

Long live the Real Cornish Pasty Company, where we can blow our overdrafts with casual aplomb!

Gemma · Poster

must agree about the cornish pasty company, YUMMY!

PeterJ · Dame Poofy

About this whole gay night thing...

AlbyFC · You best sima!

RE: Curious is dead, long live...

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

Cheers ALby I will need people to help once I have publicity printed! If anyone else wants to help, let me know!

Adam · *Censored*

i am only helping if there are stickers!

special_k · Posting Addict

Scotty wrote:

poor mans kylie.....even though shes better than ure average gina g

gina g is better than the whole cast 9of neighbours put together** - i suggest you go wasyh your mouth out with soap and water young man,.......

(**except, of course, for svetlanka)

Adam · *Censored*

the one who sucks lemons? Dannii Minogue's new single is out soon gays!

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

Adam wrote:

i am only helping if there are stickers!

I can't afford stickers! We'll make our own with masking tape!

Polo fiend · Lord Gay Van Gay of Gayville

Curious isn't dead!

It's back next year!! And I would say something about it in comparison to the last one, but as I'm sure many of you know, I was pretty wasted then! Curse Sophie Steadman with vodka Hehe

Scotty · The saviour of mankind

Polo fiend wrote:

Curious isn't dead! It's back next year!! And I would say something about it in comparison to the last one, but as I'm sure many of you know, I was pretty wasted then! Curse Sophie Steadman with vodka Hehe

Emily is right! Curious will be back for all the shiny new fresher....but in the mean we can all look forward to the summer queer bash! Are you as excited as i am?!

Mackie · Guru of the Gay

Everybody should curse sophie Steadman and vodka! (aka blonde sophie) she has a knack of getting everyone drunk! that includes me and i don't need much encouragement lol!

Curious won't only just be for the shiny new fresher but for all the old timers as well

Even the ones that remeber last years curious at phono! all i can say is triple vodkas are not a good idea hehe

lol i have many stories! this is what i won't from the next curious but first from the wonderful summer queer bash! get your posh clothes and prepare to be treated like royality with posh nosh at the queens

I'm excited about the summer bash ! ooo What to wear i love getting dressed up ( I own more than jeans and hoodies

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Date: Wed May 3 13:40 2006

Is it true that the committee have cancelled this event?? could a member of the committee please state their reasons for this??? surely an lgbt event, which they wouldnt have to do any work for would be a great advert for the lgbt, without any costs to the society??? its seems strange that the committee are unable or dare i say, unwilling to support its own members when they try to arrange an independant club night! what happened to being inclusive???

mucho love
xx

thaidave · Not Thai Dave

Hey there, i'll answer your query as best as i can. Bare in mind i wasn't at the actual meeting, so might not be entirely accurate. Another committee member might need to clarify what i'm saying, which could be bollocks. Anyways -
I believe that the committee has decided not to support this event as if anything were to go wrong, it would be come back to us. We cancelled Curious earlier on in the year because of it's proximity to the exam period and thus for us to support another event at this time would be hypocritical. I believe cancelling our support for the event came in at a 7 to 1 majority with one abstention. This doesn't mean individually we do not support the event. Indeed, personally i am gonna try and get as many people as i possibly can to come along to this event, which, by the way, i think will be fantastic, and a great tribute to the amount of work Richard puts in to the society, both as an ordinary member and on the committee last year. I would urge everyone to come along as well - just because the event has not got the committee seal of approval doesn't mean sh*t, the event will go on, and hopefully be more successful than we could ever make it.

Please note the above is my opinion

not necessarily the committee's! And last time i spoke to Rich the event was going ahead - i'm sure he'll tell us if anything changes!

ThaiDave (International Officer)

thaidave · Not Thai Dave

Anonymous wrote:

Is it true that the committee have cancelled this event?? could a member of the committee please state their reasons for this??? surely an lgbt event, which they wouldnt have to do any work for would be a great advert for the lgbt, without any costs to the society??? its seems strange that the committee are unable or dare i say, unwilling to support its own members when they try to arrange an independant club night! what happened to being inclusive???

mucho love
xx

One more thing

I believe that this event was cancelled because of its impracticalities from a society perspective rather than any malice from the committee. Indeed there has been some suggestions that the committee have done this simply because they never organised the event... i don't believe this is the case and believe any future events proposed by other members would be taken into consideration. Indeed we are an inclusive society and will always do our best to represent our members. We have a meeting tomorrow in which i think this subject will crop up. Does anyone have any questions for the meeting that i can post answers to afterwards?

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

Never fear, despite interference from the committee this event is definitely happening with the full support of RAG who were very entusiastic about the potential of the night. Any profits will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust so please come along and support us!

There should be flyers and posters printed shortly now that all of the unnecessary beaurocracy has been dealt with!

Scotty · The saviour of mankind

Dave speaks much of the truth. Originally the night was booked for Curious, but as a committee and from feedback from the members it was decided that curious should be postponed until the start of next year. The booking was still there however and Richard saw a window of opportunity...

Cancelling the booking became a neccessity because of the course TGNATU is nothing to do with the LGBT society, and having it still in our name meant any repurcusions would ultimately end with us. Having been at the meeting i can honestly say it wasnt out of spite at all (it was very stressful trust me!), and im sure Richard is aware of that.

But like he says he is still running it so everyone wins really and i know the LGBT committee wish him all the success in the world, hes worked hard he deserves results. And its all just something to keep you ticking over until the ulitmate event of ultimateness that is the summer queer bash takes place on june 9th...

AliceH · Butter Me Up!

richardyoung71 wrote:

Any profits will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust so please come along and support us!

That's cool. A very worthy cause, and a slap in the fact for anyone who thinks you're doing this for profit. I really admire all the hard work you've put in. I know firsthand from Adam as well as friends who are involved in the local music scene how much stress it takes to organise a night and how the rewards stemming from it aren't usually financial.

I'm so pleased my exam is on Wednesday morning, not Thursday morning so I can come. Yay!

ChrisH · Mmm eyebrows!

Just to clear this up for everyone....

No-one on the committee is against this event taking place and I expect the majority of us will be going along too.... We allowed Rich to keep the booking in his own name until further arrangements could be made, it wasn't completely cancelled. The only change that we made was taking it out of the LGBT name as it's not an event run by us.
The only reason we did this was because of any possible repercussions experienced being charged back to the society for an event we're not even organising and therefore preventing any other events or purchases being made, possibly those that have already been organised. It's simply something we had to do to and have tried to keep any cancelling of the night to an absolute worst case scenario. But the nights still going ahead so there's no probs!

I hope it's a really successful night and wish him all the best with it

x

Adam · *Censored*

Scotty wrote:

And its all just something to keep you ticking over until the ulitmate event of ultimateness that is the summer queer bash takes place on june 9th...

ADJECTIVE THIEF

I made the events office write in big letters on the booking sheet not to cancel it anyway :P

Arsecandle · Admin Bitch

just go and have fun for crying out loud. why does everything have to turn into a political drama?

good luck rich. i'll probably attend. or i may stick at home doing either of the following while shaking my fist at the wall

1) picking apart the name of the event and cursing the lack or use of certain words
2) crying because the LGBT isn't running it
3) bitching about the font used in the poster

-- Edited by Arsecandle at 19:41, 2006-05-03

thaidave · Not Thai Dave

Bravo!

JohnK · Pieces of me you've never seen

Okay, erm, I do understand what is being said but is the society going to *support* the event - meaning, is the event going to be included in emails and stuff? I think it's really important that it is as the LGBT should be supporting all non-profit making 'gay' nights in Leeds. When I was on the committee we supported Razzmatazz and when I was in first year the committee supported the first EVER curious, which happened in Stylus and *wasn't* and LGBT event at all.

I was disappointed to see its ommission from the last LGBT email.

Date: Wed May 3 22:18 2006

well said everyone, we shud all just enjoy the night and be glad the money will go to a worthy cause, not to a bunch of drama queens obsessed with making mountains out of molehills. best of luck rich, i for one shall be attending. oh and Queer Bash? seriously guys, what were you thinking?

inlowercase · I caught you a delicious bass.

as Chris has said the committee has been in support of this night since we first found out about it. the only reservation that we had was that the booking was made in the name of the LGBT.

the upshot of our decision was that if anything bad happened (and god forbid that it does) the LGBT would have been held responsible. this would mean that we as a society could have been left open to any amount of repercussions from the uni up to and including having our status as a society taken away from us. taking the name of the LGBT off the booking of the event was done in the best interest of the society as a whole and not out of spite as some people have suggested.

we did not, and never did consider canceling this event outright. we had consulted the union and rich about what could be done with taking the booking out of our name. that is all.

i personally wish rich all the best with this venture and for the record i know that most of the committee and myself will be attending the event. it should be a great night and a welcome break from exam stress.

ChrisH · Mmm eyebrows!

It would also be nice if people could remember that the majority of us have never been on a society committee before and we've only been in this one for 2 1/2 weeks so far so we're still finding our feet with it. It would be nice if we could have some support from everyone rather than digs seeing as tho we're trying to do things for the good of you and the society.... We're just trying to do whats best

-- Edited by ChrisH at 10:40, 2006-05-04

Arsecandle · Admin Bitch

I don't think the committee is doing anything wrong to be honest. At least it appears that way to me. I think the transition has worked out quite well so don't be disheartened.

It's just the drama queens that need to be shot.

Date: Thu May 4 13:09 2006

ChrisH wrote:

It would also be nice if people could remember that the majority of us have never been on a society committee before and we've only been in this one for 2 1/2 weeks so far so we're still finding our feet with it. It would be nice if we could have some support from everyone rather than digs seeing as tho we're trying to do things for the good of you and the society.... We're just trying to do whats best-- Edited by ChrisH at 10:40, 2006-05-04

i think ull find it starts now an doesnt let up, for everything you do theres gna b someone waitin to knock u down!
laura x

JohnK · Pieces of me you've never seen

ChrisH wrote:

It would also be nice if people could remember that the majority of us have never been on a society committee before and we've only been in this one for 2 1/2 weeks so far so we're still finding our feet with it. It would be nice if we could have some support from everyone rather than digs seeing as tho we're trying to do things for the good of you and the society.... We're just trying to do whats best-- Edited by ChrisH at 10:40, 2006-05-04

That's neither here nor there really. The committee is there to represent and listen to its members, whether they agree with there opinion or not. These aren't digs. They are concerns, suggestions and issues that people, no, members of the society you are part of running, are concerned about.

This is a suggestion, not a dig:

I think the society should be more actively supporting this night - not putting it's name to it, but at least letting its members know about the night via the weekly emails that are sent out so that it can be well attended. This hasn't happened yet as far as I know?

And Laura is right. Develop thick skins, and fast! Often time, people who seem to be making criticisms are simply trying to be constructive and do have the good of the society at heart. I found it hard taking (often constructive) criticism at first, but you'll have to get used to it.

Mackie · Guru of the Gay

As i have read the comittee have never said that they do not support the event nor have they made a full comment on their stance. We will be encouraging members to attend, any night designed for lgbt members is always welcome! I hope nobody has taken any offence regarding this event. I think people should go Richard has worked hard for it and in such needs alot of praise as he doesnt have a comitee standing behind him. As for the comitee we listen to members as much as possible.

Please can we stop getting political wether this is meant or not!

Just get ready for the Gay night at the uni! and can we please make this postive its a fun night! not a competition!!!

xx

Scotty · The saviour of mankind

Mackie wrote:

Just get ready for the Gay night at the uni! and can we please make this postive its a fun night! not a competition!!!

xx

The girls right it isnt a competition....but if it was the summer ball would be the clear winner

Mackie · Guru of the Gay

erm Scotty!

We know the Summer ball is going to be the best thing to hit leeds lgbt but The Gay night at the uni is going to be the best event to hit the union this summer!

xx

richardyoung71 · *Censored*

Lets just see which makes more money for charity before we decide which is the best, hey?!

JohnK · Pieces of me you've never seen

Mackie wrote:

As i have read the comittee have never said that they do not support the event nor have they made a full comment on their stance. We will be encouraging members to attend, any night designed for lgbt members is always welcome!

I never said you weren't supporting it hon. I just think you could maybe include it on an email to advertise it more widely.

And just to say, as far as I can see, you're all doing a great job so far, so well done. Just try to take suggestions and comments in the spirit that they are meant :)

Mackie · Guru of the Gay

Yer it's cool! i kinda got that! the suggestions have been taken and we have made a decision! We are more than happy to advertise this event in our emails as long as Richard wants us to x

JohnK · Pieces of me you've never seen

Cool Gemma, that's really good. Thanks v.much for listening.

xxxx